To solve a problem that cigarettes or all other smoking articles are stored in a container with the same heights in the container for the smoking articles, and in particular, when the container is fully filled, the cigarette is hardly taken out or inconvenient.

The container for the smoking articles includes an opening for taking out the smoking articles at small quantities and a step 7, and the step 7 is constituted so that a smoker can grasp the projected smoking article by shaking the container and forcibly moving an individual cigarette 11 so as to make one end stay on the step 7 in the container, and by making the cigarette 11 project from the opening.